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Webb finds mysterious objects barely twice the mass of Jupiter
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Bibha Chowdhuri: She who tracked cosmic rays
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (525+ words) “Women are terrified of Physics—that is the trouble. It is a tragedy that we have so few women physicists today.” — Bibha Chowdhuri to the Manchester Herald in 1948. A childhood shaped by science and reform She attended Bethune School before…...
James Webb Telescope catches a big surprise from a tiny world
5+ hour, 40+ min ago (206+ words) (NewsNation) — A tiny, distant world has just delivered a big surprise: its rings are changing. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that Chariklo, a small icy body orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, has undergone dramatic changes in…...
Kickapoo Valley Dark Sky Initiative shares informational program with Vernon County Over 50 series – VernonReporter
6+ hour, 59+ min ago (150+ words) Vernon Reporter spoke with the Kickapoo Valley Dark Sky Initiate this winter. VIROQUA, Wis.–––The McIntosh Memorial Library of Viroqua in partnership with Vernon County Over 50 will present an informational program from the Kickapoo Valley Dark Sky Initiative, on Wednesday,…...
ALMA is Watching a Massive Binary Star System Form
4+ hour, 48+ min ago (319+ words) Astronomers used 8 years of observations to create a 3D image of a very young, very massive binary star as it forms. The image shows that the disks in the system are all misaligned. Those misalignments, together with the orbit, are clues…...
Active Supermassive Black Holes Seen Creating Star-Forming Rings In Blow To Conventional Models
32+ min ago (482+ words) Space & Physics Editor Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. The central region of NGC1386 with the star formation ring in red, black-hole radiation in blue, and shocks in…...
Active Supermassive Black Holes Actually Trigger Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies
4+ hour, 45+ min ago (518+ words) Recent research led by astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian suggests that actively growing supermassive black holes may actually boost star formation in their host galaxies rather than suppress it. Published in The Astrophysical Journal, the study analyzed…...
Black Holes May Be Building Galaxies Instead Of Destroying Them, New Study Reveals
5+ hour, 20+ min ago (633+ words) New observations reveal that active supermassive black holes may help shape star formation across their host galaxies. The research team used the VLT/MUSE instrument to create detailed three-dimensional maps of gas movements and energy sources inside the galaxies. These…...
???? Yet another oddity discovered on Betelgeuse - News
10+ hour, 5+ min ago (422+ words) Sep 15, 2026, 11:00 AM FR · ES · DE · PT Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star located about 600 light-years from Earth. Its radius reaches nearly 800 times that of the Sun. This size allows astronomers to distinguish details of its atmosphere and surface with ALMA,…...
Why Do Galaxies Collide If the Universe Is Expanding?
9+ hour, 4+ min ago (622+ words) The universe is expanding, yet galaxies still merge. The answer lies in gravity, local motion, and the difference between cosmic expansion and a galaxy’s neighbourhood. The phrase “the universe is expanding” can sound as though every galaxy must move away…...